The Disappeared
The story of September 26, 2014, the day 43 Mexican students went missing.
Longform Best of 2015
We recommended 1,453 articles this year, from 1,210 writers and 360 publications. They were read nearly 20 million times.
These were our favorites.
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They Burn Witches Here
A trip to Papua New Guinea, “an island caught between the ancient world and 2015.”
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Displaced in the D.R.
A nation strips 210,000 of citizenship and sets the stage for mass deportations.
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Stowaways and Crimes Aboard a Scofflaw Ship
Working on the high seas is always dangerous, but the Dona Liberta has a particularly bad reputation.
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The Desert Blues
The musicians of Mali find themselves in the middle of a civil war.
